print;
book;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1857,0228.70-121
- Title
- Object: Illustrations of Stirling's Annals of Spanish Artists
- Description
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A book of numerous photographic prints supplementary to Stirling's 'Annals of Spanish Artists' after Velazquez, Zurbaran, Murillo and others, also included are a woodcut frontispiece with an elegantly dressed gentleman within an ornamented frame, a drawing of a dancing girl, engraved portraits of Gaspar de Guzman, Count-Duke of Olivares and Bartholome Esteban Murillo, an engraving of The Beggar Boy after Murillo, an etching of the penitent St. Francis of Assisi by a crucifix by Murillo, a pen and ink drawing of a Cardinal Infante Ferdinand as a huntsman and his dog after Velasquez and ten watercolours after Spanish artists
Photographic process, engravings, etchings, woodcut, drawings
- Production date
- 1848 (Accompanying text published)
- Dimensions
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Height: 282 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 194 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- For the text see the book held by the BL under Press mark C.31.M.4-7. These are some of the earliest photographs used for book illustration, and were made for Sir William by Fox Talbot. For his account of the book and its editions, see Walpole Society LXXVII 2015, p.436.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Illustrations of Stirling's Annals of Spanish Artists
- Acquisition date
- 1857
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1857,0228.70-121
